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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 266, 8 June 1910, Page 5

A Waikato grazier says that the idea that the farmer is benefiting by the rise in the price of boots and all leather goods, is misleading. Fat cattle have averaged lower in price the last two years than five years ago. The grazier still has to sell fat four year bullocks for £7 to £B, ap.d if the butcher gets fbflble for hides the the farmer does not benefit. A few picked hides fetch BJd per lb to-day, but the majority average 6£d. Some years ago hides fetched 3d to 4d per lb ?md good leather so}d for 7£d per lb.. To-day leather sells readily at Is 6d to 2s 3d per lb, giving a gross profit of 9d to Is against the 3Jd of some years ago. It is generally pdraittecj that the leather pf te-dfiy is not so good as that made some years ggq. A good horse collar cost 20s a few years ago and an inferior one costs 26s to-day.